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by C L R James  Publisher Comments This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba.... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by John Ross Publisher Comments Mexico is a land torn between Latin America and the U.S., between its Indian and revolutionary past and the modern trappings of skyscrapers, cellular phones, and factories. "Mexico in Focus" is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to this vivid and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Dunkerley Publisher Comments This unique guide to the politics and recent history of Central America by one of its most distinguished commentators opens with a succinct overview of pacification and democracy in the region.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Georgie Anne Geyer Publisher Comments With Guerrilla Prince, syndicated journalist Georgie Anne Geyer calls on her twenty-five years of experience covering Latin America to create an extraordinary biography that finally reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro. Based on hundreds of... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by D. H. Figueredo and Frank Argote-Freyre Book News Annotation This reference for high school and up examines the historical events that have shaped the islands of the Caribbean Sea, beginning with an account of the indigenous populations and ending with the major political and economic developments taking place... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Brentlinger Publisher Comments The Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua inspired many North Americans, including the author of this moving and informative book. John Brentlinger made six trips to Nicaragua, both before and after the defeat of the Sandinista Party. Combining the insights... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jorge Castaneda Publisher Comments Castaneda offers a remarkably candid account of Mexican presidential politics, "destined to become the most important political book of the decade" ("Foreign Policy"). In six penetrating essays combined with interviews with each of the living Mexican ex... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Denis Defibaugh Publisher Comments The people of Oaxaca, Mexico, believe the souls of the dead, the antepasados, return every year for a twenty-four-hour visit. They are welcomed into their former homes with gaily decorated altars and offerings of food and gifts. Then they are escorted... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Hodges Publisher Comments Mexico Under Seige is a readable and well-informed political history covering the period from the ruling PRI's lurch to the right in 1940 through to its eventual departure from office in the elections of 2000. Based on two decades of interview material... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Franklin Knight Publisher Comments Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean journeys through five centuries of economic and social development, emphasizing such topics as the slave-run... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Chasteen Publisher Comments In this engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence, Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts the... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jan K Black About the Author Jan Knippers Black is a professor in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. She has authored or edited and co-authored a dozen books, including Development in Theory and... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $2.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jorge G Castaneda Publisher Comments The Mexican Shock is acclaimed critic Jorge Castenada's examination of the key issues in Mexico in recent years and their effects on the United States: emigration, the relationship between politics and economics, the assassination of Luis Colosio, and... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Che Guevara Publisher Comments This indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara’s most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America. Guerrilla Warfare, written in 1960, outlines Guevara’s doctrine for guerrilla... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert M. Levine Publisher Comments This book examines the life and times of Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian dictator and president for most of the period from 1930 to 1954. It asks how Vargas' legacy influenced Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation affected people's lives... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Edgar Wideman Publisher Comments In this compelling travel memoir, author John Edgar Wideman explores Martinique' s seductive natural beauty and culture, as well as its vexed history of colonial violence and racism. Attempting to decipher the strange, alluring mixture of African and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Graeme Mount Publisher Comments After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's subsequent declaration of war upon the United States, Chile's reluctance to sever diplomatic ties with Nazi Germany allowed Germany to maximize its opportunities there, influencing Chilean... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lib Crandon Malamud Publisher Comments "From the Fat of Our Souls" offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marjorie Agosin Publisher Comments This collection of poems by Marjorie Agosin, noted poet and editor, is presented in both Spanish and English. Published to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights, this book joins two of Agosin's most acclaimed... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey H Cohen Publisher Comments Migration is a way of life for many individuals and even families in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some who leave their rural communities go only as far as the state capital, while others migrate to other parts of Mexico and to the United States. Most... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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